libc.a & x86

Metuki Sabhe sabhe.metuki@gmail.com
Tue Jul 24 17:19:00 GMT 2007


hi all,

does libc.a exclusively uses the traditional 'int $0x80' method
to make a system call or is it using sysenter too ?

when I check the static objects compiled when building glibc,
I see that ENTER_KERNEL is sometimes translated to 'int 0x80'
and sometimes to 'call *0x0' which i think is 'call *_dl_sysinfo'.

thank you
metuki



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